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Solutions Unlimited has been bringing you quality service and computer consulting for over 13 years and as we’ve marked 2010 for a year of growth for us, we’d like to extend a new offer to all of our existing clients and anyone else who’d like to experience just what Solutions Unlimited can do for your business.
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With our new network monitoring program, you’ll get 30 days of the very best anti-virus software we could find and proactive reporting on all issues that may arise with your system. This will allow you be able to stay on top of your network in a new way by catching issues before they turn into problems that can take your system down.
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Tips For Downloading From the Web
Installing software from the internet isn’t difficult by any means, especially if you know a couple of things to watch out for. One of the first things to pay attention to is where you’re getting the software from.
There are some reputable soureces to get almost any software and if at all possible, you should try to utilize them. They do a good job of making sure the downloads are safe. Here are a few that we use here.
www.download.com
www.filehippo.com
www.tucows.com
When you’re downloading, even from these sites, you still have to be careful. Most of these sites have a lot of advertising on them that can be made to look like the “download” button for the site when they’re actually an advertisement to take you elsewhere. You can always hover the mouse over any link before you click on it and the actual destination address will pop up at the bottom of the screen. Make sure you’re going where you intend to go.
Once you start the download, you’ll see a prompt to “open” or “run” the software. We suggest “opening” it and saving it to your desktop. Then double clicking the icon on your desktop to run the installer. Some of our favorite free software will prompt you to install additional software like toolbars, etc. We suggest reading each screen carefully, and un-checking anything that looks suspicious.
For example, Adobe Acrobat Reader is notorious for installing the McAfee Secrutiy Scanning software. Yahoo Messenger installs all kinds of Yahoo toolbars, and all of Google’s free software installs the Google Toolbar, and Google Update services.
While this software typically isn’t very malicious, it can slow down your computer. All you need to do is look for check boxes that you can choose to check or not. These will usually already be checked and all you need to do is “uncheck” them to make sure that the extra software isn’t installed.
This will help keep you safe when you do have to install software to get things done. We hope this makes your computing life easier
